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Here's a real switcho chango...This is probably my all time favorite 'soul' song. 2 of them.
Last edited by Chuckie, 2nd July 2018 at 00:36.
An older Toto song with a somewhat sad video. There's a cookie for whoever is first in naming the actor who plays the fugitive. But no cheating, please — you must name him right after watching the video, without consulting YouTube, Wikipedia or any other sources.
Hint: There's a bit of a clue within this very post somewhere.
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Dude who played Worm Tongue. Can't recall his name. I saw the bulgy eyes and I had to look again, then I remembered.
Brad Doureff is his name, if memory serves me correctly. He was also in the Dune movie.Originally posted by Dreamtimer
Dude who played Worm Tongue. Can't recall his name. I saw the bulgy eyes and I had to look again, then I remembered.
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More correctly spelled, it's Brad Dourif, and yes, he played Grima Wormtongue, as well as (the spirit who possessed) Chuckie, and several other bad guys.Brad Doureff is his name, if memory serves me correctly. He was also in the Dune movie.Dude who played Worm Tongue. Can't recall his name. I saw the bulgy eyes and I had to look again, then I remembered.
The cookie goes to our sister Dreamtimer, although she may want to share it with Radagast, so I'll make it an extra big one.
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Is it a lembas cookie? The whole forum could share...
Thank you. Something felt 'off', as if the recall was too easy.More correctly spelled, it's Brad Dourif, and yes, he played Grima Wormtongue, as well as (the spirit who possessed) Chuckie, and several other bad guys.
"To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize" -- Voltaire
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Misery loves company. Wisdom has to look for it." -- Anonymous
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I love this! Unique, fearless...Maggie Rogers submits a song she wrote just 8 days before presenting it to the Masterclass and Pharrell Williams in this video...
"Oh Great Spirit, help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence." — Cherokee Prayer
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This is Toto's latest single, from their "40 Trips Around The Sun" album. Joseph William's vocals are really great on this track — he sounds just like he did in the late 1980s, before he completely lost his voice due to an interaction between the flu and his cocaine habit at the time. He's definitely made a great comeback. Lukather's solo is brilliant too.
This song gives me goosebumps, because it partly reflects my life right now.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlFU8fPGezk
I woke up Sunday morning
Another twenty years gone by
Pulled myself out of my bed
It's getting harder every time
Grabbed my phone but there's no messages at all
Then I realized there's no one left to call
Woah woah
Seems like things ain't what they used to be
Woah woah
Can't cry anymore
I'm alone
Woah woah
Where did everyone go?
I try to walk every morning
And no one looks me in the eye
It feels like love just left the world
And I can't help but wonder why
I have that dream again where I begin to fall
And on the way down like the meaning of it all
Woah woah
No things ain't what they used to be
Woah woah
Can't cry anymore
I'm alone
Woah woah
Where did everyone go?
I fell asleep last night and woke up in the fall
Turned my head and blinked and now there stands a wall
Woah woah
Seems like things ain't what they used to be
Woah woah
I can't cry anymore
I'm alone
Woah woah
Where did everyone go?
Woah woah
Where did everyone go?
(Lyrics by AZlyrics)
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I have a friend who's from the Eastern Shore. I wonder if his family knows this woman.
Pharrell looks pleased.
Last edited by Dreamtimer, 3rd July 2018 at 22:31.
Wow, Joseph's voice does sound really good. I didn't know about his problems. Those lyrics are kinda sad, although the song doesn't have a very sad feel to it.
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Yeah, Toto hasn't been very lucky with their singers — and not just with that. Their original singer and co-founder, Bobby Kimball, was arrested on drug charges in an FBI sting operation in the early 1980s, and although the charges were later on dropped, Kimball was facing trial for a while. So they needed a new singer, and then they hired Dennis "Fergie" Fredriksen, with whom they did the "Isolation" album. Fredriksen also contributed to their next album, "Stranger In Town", but eventually Toto fired him because they felt that they didn't mesh well with him in the studio. (Fredriksen died of cancer in 2014, by the way.)
Then they hired Joseph Williams — who is the son of film composer John Williams, known from (among others) the Star Wars theme. Joseph was one of their high school buddies. But then that mix of having the flu in combination with his cocaine habit completely killed his voice and he couldn't sing anymore.
Needing to replace Joe, Toto wanted to reunite with Bobby Kimball, but their record company insisted that they instead hire South-African singer Jean-Michel Byron, with whom they released the single "All Out Of Love" and did a tour. However, Byron is gay, and his exaggerated diva-like stage antics didn't sit well with the band. They felt that it hurt their reputation. So then Byron was relegated to the role of backing vocalist for a while, while Steve Lukather chose to become the full-time lead singer for the next album.
After that, the band went through some significant changes, starting with the death of drummer and co-founder Jeff Porcaro — the story as published by Toto themselves was that he had inhaled pesticides when spraying his garden, but the official coroner's report states the cause of death as arterial hardening as the result of cocaine abuse. The band was about to fall apart, but at the request of the Porcaro family — with Steve Porcaro having left the band earlier to pursue a career in composing movie music and Mike Porcaro having taken over the bass guitar from Toto's original bassist David Hungate — Steve Lukather took over leadership of the band, and they hired British session drummer Simon Phillips as a permanent replacement for Jeff Porcaro.
Then, even though Bobby Kimball eventually returned as lead singer, keyboard player and co-founder David Paich was forced to refrain from touring with the band in order to spend more time with a very ill family member, and bass player Mike Porcaro was diagnosed with ALS. That's when Steve Lukather officially disbanded Toto, saying that "With Paich gone and without at least one Porcaro in the band, I can't go on stage and play "Hold The Line" with a straight face anymore. It's not Toto anymore."
However, with some convincing from the other members and with Steve Porcaro returning to the band, Toto was brought back together for a reunion tour, with Joseph Williams returning to the band and replacing Bobby Kimball. Although both singers have their strengths, Steve Lukather felt that Joseph's voice carries a bigger punch, and he wanted to have that power back at the front stage that Toto had in the late 1980s, when Joseph Williams sang such Toto success hits as "Can't Stop Loving You", "Pamela", "Mushanga" and "Home Of The Brave". As a replacement for Mike Porcaro — who was by now nearing the end of his life — they hired session bass player Nathan East.
Drummer Simon Phillips has in the meantime left the band again after more than 20 years in order to further his solo career. He was initially replaced by Shannon Forrest on tour, but for their latest album, Toto hired veteran session drummer Vinnie Colaiuta, who has toured with (among others) Jeff Beck, Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. Original Toto bassist David Hungate has also returned for the new album, but I don't know whether he plans on sticking around, given that he initially left the band because the touring was taking him away from his family too long. Of course, that was a long time ago, and priorities change, as does life itself.
Well, I guess that's a matter of perspective.
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Thanks...now it's all making sense to me, and thanks for taking the time to find that out Aragorn!Just a quick heads-up, guys... When you're replying to a post with more than one video in it, then you must delete the videos from the quoted portion of your reply, because this version of vBulletin has a nasty bug, which causes your own reply to appear inside the quotes if the quotes contain more than one video.
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